Where: Iran (32.0° N, 57.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 42.6° E)
When: Baghamshah Formation, Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• base of Baghamshah Fm, Zigzag zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: H.M. Kluyver, R. Tirrul, P.N. Chance, G.W. Johns, and H.M. Meixner. 1978. Explanatory text of the Naybandan Quadrangle Map 1:250,000. Explanatory text of the Naybandan Quadrangle Map 1:250,000 1-143 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 37565: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 16.03.2004
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Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Isastraea sp." = Isastrea
"Isastraea sp." = Isastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Gervillella cf. acuta Sowerby 1826 oyster | |
Plagiostoma subcardiiforme file clam
Ctenostreon sp. Eichwald 1862 file clam | |
Pleuromya alduini Brongniart 1821 clam | |
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864 clam | |
Ceratomyopsis sp. Cossmann 1915 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Procerites sp. Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite | |
Morphoceras multiforme Arkell 1951 ammonite |